Utility pole fire with live wire on Waterfall Road
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Huntingdon County Fire and EMS
04:08
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00:00
box twelve seven, company twelve, 1200 900 , please.
00:03
Twelve 41 .
00:53
Hold on, I did.
00:57
Chief 12, go ahead.
01:00
Chief 12, just as you come out of South Towing, you pass the cemetery just before the 1st farm.
01:06
Telephone pole on fire near the bottom of the pole.
01:11
Unsure if it's what the conditions there.
01:13
Kind of like has been identified.
01:17
Chief 12, copy.
01:24
I mean, Chief 12, on scene, confirming dispatch.
01:33
The ETA was given by kind of like.
01:36
Hi, can 911 respond?
01:40
911, 1246, (number withheld) Waterfall Road, Ops 1.
01:50
Problem G12.
01:53
G12.
01:58
G12.
02:02
Fire is knocked.
02:04
I know a visible wire on the ground.
02:09
Fire was at the base of the pole.
02:10
Can you confirm that there was electricity out in the air?
02:18
All right, pass by.
02:23
Actually, correction, it was the owner of the farm there, and I believe there was no power there.
02:28
Power out.
02:33
County, attack twelve out with two.
02:37
Attack twelve, twelve forty-seven, alpha one.
02:45
Attack twelve, chief twelve, speed in, reduced rate, non-emergency.
02:50
You'll be between South Hill and the Spring Farms Elementary School on Waterfall Road.
03:00
Coming in from chief twelve.
03:04
Chief twelve.
03:09
After we knocked the initial fire and evacuated back to the roadway,
03:15
the arcing began to start again at the base of the pole.
03:21
It looks like it is live wire actually attached to the pole itself,
03:26
possibly to the ground neutral conductor that is at the base of the pole.
03:35
Received.
03:40
Engine from Chief 12.
03:43
Chief 12.
03:48
I would advise Penelec that the source cause of the issue is an automatic reset circuit breaker along the top of the pole, and that's how they keep responding here until they get here to mitigate the electricity.
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